Events

The Wakkerstroom Music Festival, annual event in March (keep a look out for the dates), Parties, Christmas Celebration Dinners and happening in Wakkies!

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Choose from a variety of accommodation to suit your needs and give you access the beauty of Wakkerstroom.

Birder's Paradise

The village of Wakkerstroom has developed significantly because of the rapidly growing interest in birds and birding and the fact that Wakkerstroom is one of the best places to see the grassland biome specials...

Wakkerstroom Tourism “In full flight for Tourism” – Birders Paradise – Jewel and 2nd Oldest Town of Mpumalanga South Africa

Wakkerstroom – ‘The Jewel of Mpumalanga”

Motto: Inter Flumina et Montes – Between rivers and mountains

The area was first inhabited by the SAN people around 1500 and experienced the first white settlements in 1853 with the town being established in 1859. More…

Freshly Renovated, the old Bioscope is home to the Wakkerstroom Tourism Association

Mr Barrow in attendance

Plenty of things to do in Wakkerstroom, please take a pamphlet

Join us as we take you on a Journey covering a period spanning over a 100 years. Particularly looking into the History of Wakkerstroom, as told by Oom Chris one of it’s oldest residents. Read more …

The Grey (Southern) Crowned Crane is a symbol to Mpumalanga and found in Wakkerstroom

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.” WB Yates

A “Frogging” week-end was organized by Kristi Garland from Birdlife South Africa, Nick Evans of KZN Amphibian & Reptile Conservation and Richard and Candice McKibbin of The Lionheart Experience. It was a weekend worth raving about! Participants had a blast and the wildlife seen surpassed the organizer’s expectations.

An eyed pansy – Junonia orithya is a nymphalid butterfly;
Photo courtesy of The Lionheart Experience

The weekend was predominantly focused on frogs. A total of 14 frog species were found, including over 25 of the charismatic little rattling frogs. During the course of the weekend, visitors experienced more incredible wildlife sightings, including water mongoose, striped field mouse, spotted necked otter, spring-hare and a serval! Butterflies and moths were spotted too.

Amur Falcon male; photo, courtesy of Jenni Maxted-Smith

Wakkerstroom is blessed with three major bird habitat types – wetlands, grasslands and forests – and this, together with a wide attitudinal range, increases the Birders opportunities with relatively little effort required from birders.

Birders

Some of our beloved summer visitors include the Amur falcon (Falco amurensis). This is a small raptor of the falcon family. Of great interest to Birders. The local club often arranges trips to view their activities.